About 60 abortion protesters rallied outside Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s Charlotte office Wednesday, hoping to influence not only North Carolina’sSenate election but control of the entire Senate.

The rally, on a South Boulevard sidewalk, was organized by a coalition of anti-abortion groups including the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee and Family Research Council Action.

It’s part of what organizers call their “Summer of Life Campaign,” which features rallies in the home states of five vulnerable Democratic senators, including Hagan.

Organizers are rallying support for a bill known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. It would ban abortions after 20 weeks.

“By turning a blind eye to this bill, Sen. Hagan proves that she is not only pro-abortion, she proves that she is anti-life,” said David Benham.

He and his twin brother, Jason, made national headlines when HGTVcanceled their house-flipping show before it aired because of David Benham’s past comments on gay marriage and abortion.

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Doug,
The Husband/Wife has been the definition of marriage as far back as I know in history. Changing the definition so that it can mean something other than that does attack the family as God intended it to be and also attacks the fabric of our nation. It is not baloney. Doug, where do you stand on the 20 week fetal pain law?

Truthseeker: Changing the definition so that it can mean something other than that does attack the family as God intended it to be and also attacks the fabric of our nation. It is not baloney. Doug, where do you stand on the 20 week fetal pain law?

TS, you’re not addressing all that Benham said. I submit that indeed, it is baloney, and that the Republican party, for instance, knows it and is being pretty darn careful these days to steer clear of it.

I grant that you have your beliefs, but with all due respect, you have no proof. Meanwhile, there definitely are some prejudices that have come down “through the ages,” so to speak.

On “20 weeks” for fetal pain, last time I looked, most states already have restrictions at 24 weeks or so. I think it’s mostly incorrect science combined with certain legislators wanting to ‘grandstand’ a little that has given us the “20 week” deal.

Ugh, the old testament displays a wide variety of marital combinations. There were many men who had multiple wives, concubines, women they kidnapped as captives of war, women they raped who were previously virgins, people married to half sisters, people marrying their dead brothers wife to sire children on behalf of the dead brother and that is off the top of my head. Truthseeker, you need to go back and read large parts of the old testament if you really believe it has always been one man and one woman getting married.

The “reversals” also show that the ingestion of medication abortion drugs is never a sure thing when it comes to terminating a pregnancy. While anti-abortion activists tout the alleged “high complication rates” of the process, what they conveniently leave out is that the most common complication is that the patient remains pregnant, and that the protocol needs to be followed up with D&C or vacuum aspiration abortion in order to end the pregnancy….

Why is the “reversal” apparently so successful then? Primarily it is because those who are trying to continue the pregnancy are already in the midst of a failed medication abortion to start with….

“There’s no evidence of any demonstrable effect of the ‘treatment’ these anti-abortion centers are marketing,” Dr. Cheryl Chastine, a provider at South Wind Women’s Center in Wichita, Kansas, said. “The medical literature is quite clear that mifepristone on its own is only about 50 percent effective at ending a pregnancy. That means that even if these doctors were to offer a large dose of purple Skittles, they’d appear to have ‘worked’ to ‘save’ the pregnancy about half the time. Those numbers are consistent with what these people are reporting.”

“[The abortion pill] binds much more tightly to the progesterone receptor, to block it than progesterone itself does…. So there really is not much evidence to indicate, I’m really not aware of anything, that by increasing the amount of progesterone you’re gonna somehow block the effect of this drug….

I think this is really outside of standard of care to just begin doing this kind of treatment, without collecting more rigorous studies about its effectiveness.”

Note: The function of mifepristone is to block progesterone receptors (which is why, in an abortion pill reversal, an extra injection of progesterone is given to counteract these effects). Mifepristone “directly causes endometrial decidual degeneration, cervical softening and dilatation, release of endogenous prostaglandins, and an increase in the sensitivity of the myometrium to the contractile effects of prostaglandins. Mifepristone-induced decidual breakdown indirectly leads to trophoblast detachment, resulting in decreased syncytiotrophoblast production of hCG, which in turn causes decreased production of progesterone by the corpus luteum (pregnancy is dependent on progesterone production by the corpus luteum through the first 9 weeks of gestation—until placental progesterone production has increased enough to take the place of corpus luteum progesterone production).”